The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A GREEN Two-cENT STAMP will soon replace the
''barn-red' one.
KANSAS estimates that its annual poultry and
egg crop is worth 81 100000.
DEApwooD JUDGE ordered jury fed on
I hrt I'd and water until verdict could be agreed
On.
! BUFFALO has a woman contractor. Her name
is Mrs. A. M. Holloway, and she has just Sc
cured the contract for cleaning the streets of
that city for five years by bid of $4,000.
SYCAMORE TREE in Edinburg Lawrence
county Pa. is probably the largest tree of any
| kind in the State, as it measures twenty-five
| feet in circumference at the trunk. Only five
| feet from the ground it sends out three huge
branches.
PROBABLY the biggest yoke of oxen in the
world were on exhibition at the Eastern Maine
State Fair last week They were raised in Yer
| mont, and measure ten feet in girth and actually
| weigh 900 pounds. 1t cost to raise them up to
| their great weight over 81 600.
| THERE is to be reunion at Louisville this fall
| of the survivors of Gen. Walkers Niearaguan
expeditions the history of which from 1855 to
| 1860 reads like a romance. 1t was during the
latter year that he was captured and shot while
| making an invasion of Honduras.
! Mrs. HORACE LEWIS, of Ketchum, Idaho re-
Gently received young antelope as a present,
and the animal has become so thoroughly do
mesticated that it follows it's mistress at all
| times. invades the kitchen, and seemingly takes
| great interest in what is being prepared for
| the meals
! A TREMENDOUS DUST STORM visited Tucson,
| A. T., the other day. 1t came almost directly
| from the south, and struck the city with roar.
| 1t shut out the sun, and almost total darkn
hung over the city for nearly half an hour.
| Every place had to be closed, and gus and lamps
| were lighted throughout the houses. The dust
was of reddish cast.
THE Brussels mint has just finished the coins
| for the Congo State, which are gold and silver
pieces of five, two, one and one-haf francs each.
one side of the coins shows the image of the
King of the Belgians with the inscription in
| French: Leopold IL, King of the Belgians,
| Sovereign of the Independent Congo State"
| and the other side bears the motto of the new
! State, Labor and Progress
| PHILADELPHIANs are excited over the transfer
Of fty-two pieces of real estate in various parts
of the city, from Mr.. and Mrs. John Wanna
| maker to Charles F. HaZetine the picture
dealer. The inference is that the real estate was
| IN payment for pictures, and that Mr.. Wanna
maker is forming a large collection, perhaps
with the intention OF presenting 1t to the city.
| Both Mr.. Wannamaker and Mr.. Hazeltine are
| now in Europe.
| THE 6-yeaf-old son of Bernard Green, near
Bennettsvile, Ind, was recently run over by
heavy wagon and had his right leg crushed.
| The father knew that the leg must come off,
| and, after vainly trying to get a surgeon, de-
| termined to perform the operation himself He
| had no instrument, with the exception of a
| razor and a small meat saw, but with these he
| took off the leg neatly, and the boy recovered
| from the shock and is doing we'll Surgeons say
| that the Job was as successful as any one could
\ ask.
THE average of the United Kingdoms wheat
crops for the ten years from 1876 to 1885 has
been 81, 452. 1854 bushels. The average gross i'm
| ports of wheat and wheat -four for the same
| period have been 131 262, 1872 bushels and the
| average yearly exports have been 1855, 763, and
the average yearly supply 210,116,0s3 bushels.
| The population on Sept. /, 1886, about
| 81, 100000, and is now more by about $780, 900.
| The gross imports of wheat and wheat flour for
the eleven months ended July 81, 1887, have been
1S6 DIS 472 bushels, against 1l3, 30l $50 bushels in
| the corresponding period in 1856, and 1884,,
| 364472 bushels the corresponding period in
| 18S4-8
| OSCAR WILDE has recently had visit from
| Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. "The Apostle
| of the Beautiful has, she says, pretty wife
and pretty house. found his dainty, cream
colored dining-room especially attractive.
think it must be an original design, this delicate
| white room, white walls, white chairs, white
| cabinets, white shelf foot wide, running
4 round the walls at a convenient height-not a
| trace of color anywhere save in the rare glass
and china and the flowers and fruit on the we'll
/ spread table. Oscar Wilde tells the best stories
4 OF any one know, and the only fault l could
find with some he told was that they were too
| good to be true"
| A SINGULAR STORY comes from st. Malo. A
vessel bound thither from Jersey with coal,
| came up on the way with handsome yacht in
| full sail, but apparently deserted The captain
| threw a rope ON board, and tugged the yacht
| along with his vessel. Presently one head after
! another to the number of four peeped out of
| the yachts cabin. On reaching port the captain
| sent for the gendarmes, who took boat and
| boarded the yacht. Two of its four occupants
| had disappeared, but the remaining two proved
| to be French naval deserters from Brest, who
| had escaped to Jersey, and there seized on the
| yacht Louisa, gone out to sea, and fallen
| asleep. The two men will be sent to Brest to
| undergo court martial, and the yacht will, of
! course, be claimed by its owner.
| AMONG the recent arrivals at New York from
Palermo were Catharine vilmo and her mother.
At one time, in their native city Venice, the
| Vilmos enjoyed both wealth and station, but
misfortune overlook them and they were re-
| duced to poverty. In the height of her pros
| perity Mrs Nilmo had a servant named DOnlin-
leo Waganni, who fell in love with their fair
| Catharine When the tide of their affairs
changed, and the Vilmos could no longer afford
| to keep servant, Waganni, vino is a man of
| some education, came to this country to battle
| with fortune, and try to make money to pay
| the passage here of the Vilmos. Success
| crowned his efforts and the meeting between
| Miss Catharine and her od-time servant was
| very touching. Dominica is now her accepted
| lover and they are to be married in the near flu
| ture.
| On Nov next the people of Delaware will
vote upon the question of having a constitu-
tional convention. The present constitution
was adopted in 1882, and its provisions are held
| to be unsuitable to the wants of to-day. The
chief friends of the movement for new corsti
| tuition are the Republicans, who hone from it
better results for their party. At present each
| county sends a certain number Of representa-
| tives to the General Assembly without regard
| to population. The representation. it is held
should be proportioned to population This
view is held as well by many Democrats. Every
| Democratic platform for some five years.
except the last one-has favored convention
| As a number of influential New Castle county
| Democrats have taken the matter up, il is
thought that increased attention will be given
| by the people to the matter
ALTHOUGH the scientific results of the obser
walton of the solar eclipse in this neighborhood
are insignificant" says the Berlin correspondent
of the London Times, ''some interesting reports
are given of the effects upon the lower animals
| of the Untimely observation of the sun Forest
ers state that the birds, which had already be
| gun to sing before the eclipse took place be-
| came of q sudden quite silent, and showed signs
| of ar han s u